would fifteen thousand people kill each other in any other country there would be diplomats there would be a. self-imposed out costs from society i will attack myself chemical attack my brother understand. immediately. going to be basically attack the cause of my anger and my frustration. that. two of the most violent gangs in u.s. history. is just all model killing the chill with colors matching the national flag.

but this country uses violence when it reaches and then it legitimizes the violence they all made in america on the ati. no brother walk out the door to school six in the morning and you get him is going to school so you got there what's up a signal of this world be up that early in the morning just know i'm saying to do something like that. we've been burying one of offerings while congress and we've

had shootouts at the funeral when another one of our weight gets killed at the funeral and then. so as we live amongst each other there might be one street it might be one gas station the service too with three different gangs when i get to the gas station i have to find out what are your intentions with me while i'm pumping gas so i cannot turn my back and allow you to shoot me or hit me in the back to here to look you in your eyes and see your intentions and when i look you in your eyes i'm looking to see if you would feel wolf and i'm a wolf then we need to come to some sort of agreement so we can both get out of here peacefully. and if your porch up i'm happy to let me go and get my guestbook up i appreciate you being here when i was in the communities talking to guys in the game see and lots of content and with that so many of these particularly the younger guys had never seen the pacific ocean in

a gang infested community there are situations where people will not believe a given two block radius for years polite this method though they don't go no where they got a fuck about it to the bottom lot of why because they don't known that. he's been told met that you a quick you did is what they call slip it don't get caught slippin. slippin means relax being off guard. not all point not always hostile on ready to do it done and be the one who does to the one that. you can't have you have to be on your toes at all ties man because anything at any time can happen to you and that you can't have a heart know. you can have a heart but you've been a show is sort of never near so we never let you know so be seen as someone with

feelings emotions except for. brutal force. or. going to get old movie took an advantage of the targeted sharks in just each work so our year in a concrete jungle got to be respected as a man. but in most cases respect. is actually. caught in better respect me you better fear me. when i had a hard look at everything as homers you want to be in a right state of mind if you're feeling good a bunch of dress code you know representative for the want to get into one really

didn't want to. know want to dress like. that out of the world not the way his name was named one in the morning and then one in the morning they were in the midst of all we know man is looking good the good of london let's go let's go in do whatever it takes to look good willing to do what. i was i'm going to wait until guys were with me in san francisco to be interviewed i knocked on the door of their had talent that kind of. and here are two of the most hardcore gang members and one of them has got his ironing board out and he's got his travelling ironies arnie misquotes. just a look though these are just stores in the street. he would like. to make a painting stand up in a corner with nobody in there. for

somebody that has no idea why a young man would do it what is the allure it's i join the gang not only for the protection for the love and unity to be a part of the family. if you live in the ghetto and you live in the mamma where you're being assaulted like i was i just got tired of being a victim it's like either you're a victim or you to fix or. you can. wait until it is not like you can to get out of this and when you race until like this is what they teach you living on a i was really a good tool and you know get chased out of school get shot at all the time it might

get i'm damned if i do damned if i don't. step out and get something this pod locked and in fact a mom will to my neighborhood ahdaf my neighborhood pompously mom neighborhood so i don't look at it like old gang talking business travel to church to. look let's all my. age you know what i mean. that's why he's hooked up with this. will they keep the looking out for me put clothes on his back ok but now it's time to just going to get these niggas just shot at my house we should all do. wish you don't love again let me just fish you all much so how can you say no to that this will kill his mo business you feed me.

told me when you first got the fires got i was like the trial was about to wail now i got my first go when i was thirteen years old you guys just go to school if you don't have one you got to be around somebody's got i carry two or three got the ball right i don't want to have another i got a back up. take a forty something. you got because you're not twenty to thirty it's contested not sixteen come on now you've also violent down some. of my generation with the last four after my generation kill is gun play there was no such thing to fight the kids today came right in the game of go. that's why so many murders. that's mainly a twelve year old thirteen year old king for a day i'm not gonna put you in on all i'm not the state.

within itself says the child. you clear black people. are moms call the doll to. me clear the block standing twelve thirteen years old with a pistol small. stick in your pocket and you walk all. the hall or to use against another interview. one human being but once you block that part your mind out becomes very easy you go watch and they become not the first time jittery you get to see the nervous system and then you come back and look at the same person at the been along with the flow here and i mean they sold a ready to get.

one with a lot of people right but being why and it's been true i got a lot i love to be in a real mother. and that is saved my life many times you'll say but at the same time this is another generation that don't know me and feel like they can get a strike could they get rid of me. much or enemy and whatever they do you counterattack they write on the wall you run to beat up somebody you've beaten about and shoot somebody uses. the movie and she want to bust me goldie and she like to be avoiding. the issue but . the lipstick. really became a dog the dog was. the you killed there was just but.

you are retelling it because your heart of gold live with you and keep the film up there so that you got to make you feel when you freeze in the sun which is gold over and over and over. and i. come back again bringing. it back. even though i'm in the game i'm in. for a. deal with the world or i ignore it i don't pay attention to it is

really no room in this world for this man so. i wrestle a lot man because i know that ultimately to say the way to society intended it to be so a lot of times man i'm no more good individual but sometimes i've got to put that moral state of my behind and become an animal. think. well there's a doubt. in the prior to world war two eighty five

ninety percent of the black population this country lives in the south. was a lot of. black people would primarily lived in the south because of slavery in the south was a rule agrarian reform economy oh there's a good way about. world war two ushers in a series of transformations that the radically changing nature of black history in this country blacks for the first time are invited and now to work in america's history all arsenal for democracy building those tanks building those planes building those ships. one thousand forty's one thousand seventies you see over four million african-americans leave the south and ways that have never never heard the phrase live and for new york head first

caught go ahead for los angeles. for the first time they were integrated into the american worker economy they were earning enough to be lower middle class homeowners in l.a. and to establish if not exactly a very close similarity to the american dream. place .

choose your language killing spree killer though if you're going to kill some of. the consensus get to. choose the opinions that you think are a cool. choose the stories that impact the. child's access to often. no way did not have the overt history with racism in one hand in the south there were no laws that said blacks had to ride on one part of the bus or no laws that blacks had to be in certain schools there were however extremely exclusive web of racially restrictive housing evidence that kept blacks in particular areas and out of other areas these covenants mandated the sale of real estate along racial lines in an effort to keep traditionally white neighborhoods free of non desirable homes

sometimes not desirable men latino sometimes not desirable men do sometimes not desirable men asian but it always meant black and so those racially restrictive covenants which didn't disappear into the late forty's and early fifty's essentially kept blacks circumscribed in a very narrow portion of the l.a. county region. like people were forced to live on top of each other because it just wasn't possible to live where you chose even though you might have been able to afford it. in. south l.a. residents responded by transforming there are a lot of territory into a thriving cultural hub and central avenue developing into a sort of west. west coast best jazz clubs dozens of black businesses lining the street people dressed in their sunday best on

the weekends a period during which the most affluent and the forest blacks live essentially side by side. and then with will more to spend. time economy adapt itself to lead automotive industry major corporations like g.m. chrysler ford good you and firestone all establishing factories in south los angeles. and we're going to. factory you got benefits you got my house you could buy a car you could raise a family you could live a working class a lower middle class life. it was a moment of unprecedented black prosperity in which the two jacks three of black america was on the rise people were getting jobs were buying homes were buying cars sending their kids to colleges was a moment of real optimism. in

the late one nine hundred fifty s. you begin to get the first. wave of what came to be called the industrialization. the american economy is changing we're moving from one of those really cami to an economy based on service based on information rooted in technology that is it's high skilled highly wage training on one very low skilled sweatshop labor on the other. blacks find that their skills don't fit into either those demands. they don't have the education or the skill or the training because of historic discrimination to work in aerospace. on the other hand they don't feel any desire or need to go into the low skilled service sector jobs like hotel cleaning like sweatshop work downtown l.a.

because they don't perceive that as jobs that american citizens should have. and not talking about people where the rear we're talking about people with jobs if you have a job you are in the on that job so when that factory closes you are in essence asked out. by the late sixty's you see those plants beginning to disappear when they disappear there is virtually nothing left in their wake. and so it leaves a gaping hole in the economy of the region. with consequences that are just enormous. generationally in america is supposed to be about the american dream people are

supposed to move up as opposed to elevate. we're talking about a situation where actuality it whenever reverse the children over time began to do worse than their parents. in one nine hundred seventy five the los angeles times reporters into the streets to assess progress in the city's black communities ten years after the watts regatta. the fearful lived behind protective bars and double locks high schools are graduating functional illiterates. some black people have got businesses some professionals have got into significant jobs but if you talk about the masses of that guy who was in trouble in one nine hundred sixty five it is more difficult now. the black in the ghetto gold surviving. on.

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sorry. about a big one all night and all of that. all not. all. the. time to commit to it i'm going to begin to have a. headache the train of thought i have been going to. a refugee is a want to call that would displace like most. of the accomplishment over the it might not be acceptable in britain but however some it occurs in every two or three hours among community. in the south central community basically what you have is in p.p.o. broken down business if you have any business. take a walk down the boulevard from french out of vermont and you tell me the

opportunities that are available low income housing five or six churches gang violence cracked up to. get up to no crack cocaine onto the streets of l.a. in one nine hundred eighty one proved to be a major tipping point for an already vulnerable to. cocaine came a toy it broke up a lot of you know a lot of people just thought crack was the way out you know what are you. think of what the key is you know what i'm saying that will broke a lot of homes that if that crack would never came the party still have nice the homes and nice to the families you know when i came there like tow everything before but let me ask you into juba conventional trial. dysfunctional as families in the south of. boston see out here is ninety three i was raised out of that he. had to be a man a mom take care of my mommy see my g. mosque far from my low but this is said. i do it by for little brothers and sisters

do it you don't. look at me. i grew up in a home where my mother worked two jobs but had three schools so you can imagine we were on supervised sold up all my supervision outside of the home. she was too busy making a living. then to love me. even though she tried and did the best that she could it was not a. lot of black youth in a neighborhood just not the opposite way so i went to gangs without fighting come out not on thing they had some hand that getting your books then stayed on but if everybody had been a lot of things would have been different but that wasn't the case.

the common thread throughout all of these conversations throughout our communities things to be. part of most part the absence of a father male figure father figure in the home. kind of a home with news no male influence. on them from. then everything is going to be out of whack the people told me told me wrong tell me how to be all. you want is not be a man but his fight to me by somebody or goes to somebody does a way to tell me you've been a man. have a soap coach of

a young black man attending to the men back killing each other. about standing up in a brothel. but they're misguided . now days the fathers are the black men my age are either day and are in jail and one of the problems we have is . if they're going to try to arrest a problem that means they're putting all the black men in jail. in two thousand and three bureau of justice report reveals the twenty eight percent african-american men more than one in four will be jailed or sent to prison in the last. week of engaged in this country and an absolutely historically unprecedented experiment in the past in prison. we now have and

imprisonment plague that is six to seven times higher than it has ever been before in our history is suffocation coming to fix prison or stuck in the system in two thousand and seven four years governor announced plans to spend seven point four billion dollars to build forty thousand new prison. terms. look at the population of people in the penitentiary particularly from the one nine hundred eighty s. going forward. black men are disproportionately represented the new deal with the band plays you. would need to like to. get over a few. issues gave you the sense of. what this means is we are breaking even the possibility of the big intact families with a mother and a father raising a child together. because we are sending the men off to prison with

unprecedented rapes usually for nonviolent offenses that. would. be. even with time served so many of those determined to start a new life find little freedom in their lives. i go to get a job i'm working for xerox sent an application and they found out i was on parole and i lost my job i used to be jealous some our wives going to work it. this is my wife a woman a stew a bomb he grew up with me bill me absolute kids and she would go out thousand go to work and i would be mad at her because she could go to work and i could help. i'll be met because she's paying the bills and i can bet you there's never no cycle to get us out of this it's just a cycle to get us back into it so of course people are going to behave in ways that

are antisocial if we don't let them behave in pro-social writers. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images.